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Okay, hello and welcome to Peppy Question of the week. My name is Steve at privateenglishportal.com. And we have a question here, a Peppy Question from Nadine from Switzerland. And her question is about Pronunciation. Steve, I would like to know how I can work on my natural English Pronunciation. I got this question a lot from students Nadine and my answer to you is, let us take the example ‘I am going to go”, okay? Or “I am going to go there”, okay? It is been my experience, my many years of teaching English okay? And I am giving you these 15 years of experience in one minute time. Is that many students will tend to think that when they say a “Contraction”, somehow, it is informal and therefore, it is incorrect or it is just not right or they do not feel comfortable saying it. And what I am saying to you is that, it will help with not only your fluency but also your acceptance in a normal, How can I put it? If you are in United States, if you are in Canada, if you are in England, if you are in a kind of situation like that where you are surrounded by native speakers, So, if you are saying “I am going to go”, I mean great! Everybody is going to understand you. But, what people would normally say in United States, Canada, especially is “I’m gonna go”, okay? So, what you want to do is work on your contractions. So we have “I am”. We drop the “a”, it becomes “I’m” right” We have “going to” and this is very important because you can hear it in popular music. You can hear it in movies, and you can even hear it sometimes, in business circles, okay? So it even goes up into that kind of level of English sometimes, okay? Where “going to” will be “gonna”, right? So we have “I am”, “I’m”. We have “going to”, “gonna” becoming “I’m gonna” so, “I am going to go” becomes “I’m gonna go” or “I am going to go there” becomes “I’m gonna there”, right? Now, that is really fast and not something you can practice. It is something like, it is like music. It is something like, almost like a rap! (Rap Beat on Background) It is slides off your tongue, “I’m gonna go there”, “I’m gonna go there”, “Oh, oh, I’m gonna go there”. So, that is something that you can try practicing yourself. Have some fun with it and at the same time, when you become comfortable using those kinds of structures, you are going to notice that linking those words together, that your pronunciation and your fluency is going to improve, okay? So I hope that answers your question Nadine and I am sure that your, “You gonna get there” okay? Or “You gonna go there” okay? So, thank you very much for you question and I look forward to your next Peppy Question next week. Bye-bye.